Dr Graeme Sherriff
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Associate Professor/Reader
Biography
Graeme is a Reader in Environment and Society at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×. He is co-director of the Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU) and co-lead of the Environment, Society and Place theme in the Centre for Research in Inclusive Society (CRIS). He is Co-chair of the Ethics Committee in the School of Health and Society.
He leads research at the interface of environmental sustainability and social justice. working on a range of societal issues including active travel, transport planning, fuel poverty and energy retrofit and green space. He utilises qualitative and quantitative methods, including innovative approaches such as social media, oral history and peer-to-peer interviewing. With a background in planning and sustainability and experience of working in the NGO and local government sectors, he works with, and has been funded by, a range of organisations including Government, housing providers, private sector, and research councils.
He combines locally rooted research with communities and stakeholders in the UK with strong international activity, mostly recently in Europe and Australia. Horizon Europe projects include PLAN-B (noise and light pollution) and BuildHeat (home energy retrofit).
Graeme chairs the Energy Poverty Research Network (formerly Fuel Poverty Research Network), which brings together and supports an international community working in research, policy and practice. He is an active member of the Cycling and Society Research Group and has been involved in the delivery of the annual international symposium since 2015. He regularly presents his research at international academic conferences on housing, energy and geography and routinely engages with policy and practice audiences through conferences and knowledge sharing events.
He supervises PhDs in School of Health and Society and School of Science, Engineering and the Environment on a range of social science and socio-technical topics including energy retrofit, home energy controls and technologies, energy poverty, urban food, and acoustics.
He holds an BSc and MA from Keele University and a PhD from the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, on environmental justice in the context of city planning.
Areas of Research
Sustainability, Social inclusion, Sustainable transport, Active travel, Fuel poverty, Energy efficient retrofit, Low carbon transitions
Social Policy
MSc Enabling Social Change